Printing a player image in XP

Mark Talluto userev at canelasoftware.com
Fri Dec 11 13:47:34 EST 2009


On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:27 PM, HyperChris at aol.com wrote:

> I need to display TIFFs and QuickTime is the only way I know to do that in Rev. So, I make sure XP has QT installed and then I use the Player object. Everything displays fine.
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> When I print in XP, though, i get mush. The Players are just a grey box (everything else on the page prints fine.) I also tried Printing to PDF to see if that helped but no dice. 
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> It works fine in OSX so the approach appears to be sound. I did consider a workaround of 'export snapshot as PNG' and then putting that image in front of the Player. However, the QT approach is already a little pokey and so I'd like to find a better solution. (It also might snapshot the print dialogue unless it supports off-screen shots!)
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> Any thoughts, ideas, magical incantations ???  TY ... Chris


Hi Chris,

Have you looked into Trevor's QT external?  Maybe there is something in there.


Best regards,

Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com





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